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Bangkok, October 5, 2015--Authorities in Thailand briefly detained Sakda Sae Iao, a prominent editorial cartoonist with the local language Thai Rath newspaper, on Sunday and warned he could be prosecuted for his future work, according to news reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the harassment and calls on Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha to end his military government's intimidation campaign against journalists.

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Bangkok, August 9, 2013--A Thai journalist has been harassed and
questioned today in connection with comments he posted to his personal Facebook
page in early Augustthat speculated about a possible military coup,
according to news reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Thai
authorities to drop the criminal investigation against Sermsuk Kasitpradit and to refrain
broadly from curbing freedom of expression over the Internet.

To head off rising tensions between supporters of Prime
Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and cartoonist Somchai Katanyutanan, who faces
possible criminal defamation charges for critical comments he posted on his
personal Facebook page, Thailand's government has to make sure police fully
investigate this weekend's attack on Thai
Rath, the country's largest circulation daily newspaper. The government's
public sensitivity to expression such as Somchai's has spurred recent political
violence in Thailand, including threats against journalists.